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Title Statement | Freedom: the overthrowing of the slave empires / [largetype] : James Walvin. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Overthrowing of the slave empires |
Series | Center Point large print |
Author | Walvin, James |
Publication | Thorndike, Maine: Center Point Large Print,2019.©2017 |
Edition | Center Point Large Print edition. |
Extent of Item | 392 pages. |
ISBN | 1643584227 9781643584225 |
Other Number | 3809921 |
General Notes | Originally published: New York : Pegasus Books, 2017. |
Contents | People as things: the slave trade -- Sinews of empire: Africans and the making of American empires -- Slave defiance -- The slave owners' nightmare: Haiti -- The Friends of Black Freedom -- Freeing Britain's slaves -- The fall of US slavery -- The end of slavery in the Spanish empire -- The last to go: Brazil -- Abolition in the wider world -- Slavery in the modern age. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
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By Topic | Slave insurrections--History--19th century |
Slaves--Emancipation--History--19th century | |
Slavery--History--19th century | |
Large type books |